>Looking at these photographs, you feel as though you’re witnessing the preliminary survey of an unknown planet—a close flyby revealing traces of abandoned alien activity. Except that the aliens are us and the planet, to use Oppen’s words, “is / Impenetrably ours.”
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https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/02/26/the-uncrowded-country-of-the-bomb/